Day: June 28, 2005

iTunes/iPod now supports Podcasting…

D'Arque Bishop

Hmmm… this is interesting.

Apparently Apple has released iTunes 4.9 along with an update to the iPod line so that it supports Podcasting. Podcasting, for those who don’t know, is a means of publishing files (most often audio broadcasts) via a subscription-based system (typically RSS). There are a couple of podcasts I would consider subscribing to… namely, this WEEK in TECH, which is hosted by the original hosts of TechTV’s The Screen Savers. There might be a couple of others I could listen to… I’ll have to search iTunes and take a look, I guess.

About the only thing that annoys me about the whole thing is the fact that the iPod software update that was released does not support my model of iPod (namely, the 3G model). I guess they might not be supporting iPods as old as mine anymore. It seriously irks me (especially as my iPod is only a year and a half old), but it’s not as if it won’t support podcasting. Supposedly it has its own support for podcasting, albeit somewhat inferior to the newer iPod models’ support. I just get support in the form of a playlist and genre. *shrug*

Oh, well. I guess it’s better than nothing. In any event, this should give me something new to listen to in the car. :-)

Hmmmm.

D'Arque Bishop

Well, today is my mom’s bday. As usual, I left the shopping to the last minute; I left work a half-hour early yesterday to get her presents. Well, that, and the fact that I had to run to Fry’s anyway to pick up a mass of network patch cables in order to get the new jacks in the engineering area and the CEO’s office operational. While at Fry’s, I picked up The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes with Jeremy Brett (the definitive Holmes) on DVD for Mom. Then I made a run up to the Woodlands Mall, stopping in Spec’s to get her a bottle of Jack Daniels (she had run out). Then, while at the mall, I went into Williams-Sonoma and got her a gift card. My shopping done, I got some food at the Sonic in the food court, and then went across to the Cinemark to see Batman Begins.

Batman Begins was actually a pretty damn good movie. It made for a much better introduction to the Batman mythos than the 1989 Tim Burton movie did, in my opinion. Of course, it helped that the main villain of the movie was my personal favorite of the Batman villains… namely, Ra’s al Ghul. Scarecrow was a little bit of a disappointment, but then nothing’s perfect. Gary Oldman, on the other hand, was hands-down the best live action Gordon yet. I was impressed just by the fact that he looked like the comic book/cartoon character of Gordon… and he nailed the role to boot. I look forward to seeing more of him.

Now I just need to see War of the Worlds sometime. I might do so this weekend, but I haven’t QUITE decided yet. Oh, well… at least this weekend will be a three day weekend.

Anyway, need to do a bit of work involving the engineering switch area et al… fun fun…